Well what a day!
Without a full team turnout ( so no chance of prizes ), Ratters didn’t wake-up!, Reggie, Ben C and myself tried to put in a good showing!
After a frought start with 600 riders muscling for position, Reg and Bruce got up into the top 20. Ben and Bruce had puctures with cut tyres, Ben retired and Bruce used a gel wrapper to patch the cut and pulled back into the top 20, still waiting for full results on the GMBC website.
Another great course with most of the usual trails used though but instead of the usual technical forest singletrack in the West side of the forest the organisers used the North Face Trail for the final third of the course, not to everyones liking, ( I like it! Reggie dosn’t, Ben didn’t get his first taster of it!) the boardwalks apparently saw lots of crashes as riders slid of in the greasy conditions! Lets hope they go back to some the original trails in the future!
Some pictures at, http://www.gmbc.co.uk/gallery.asp
